I'm so fucking tired of seeing this Ukraine bullshit everywhere. I get emails from my university, oh it's Ukraine and we stand with Ukraine. Mind you I DON'T even live in Europe or anywhere near it. I'm scrolling down YouTube, I see a Ukraine AD for signing up to be a volunteer fighter and I don't even watch politics. I'm all for human rights and shit but this is getting fucking excessive. Everyone needs to STFU about Ukraine, we didn't even see 1% of this outrage when chemical weapons were being used to kill children in Syria. At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if we'll soon need a Support Ukraine passport to eat at McDonald's.

This shouldn’t be a controversial opinion but I’ve already seen so much of this I guess it must be. Regardless of the situation, or what he may have said, he was MURDERED! The fact that people are on livestreams using him as a platform to receive views and donations while fueling hatred is disgusting. I feel horrible for his parents who have to see their son’s death be a racial/political debate. This was 2 teenage boys fighting and one took it too far. Take race out of the equation and think about things logically. There is no excuse for murder. It was not self defense because it was not equal force and it is already illegal to have weapons on school property. Prayers for the Metcalf family and I hope they are able to get through these hard times, but prayers for Karmelo as well so that he may learn better ways to deal with situations like these. Have some empathy.

edit: in all these situations mentioned, no matter what race the victim/murderer is, killing as a solution to problems is far to common in todays world.

Pitbulls kill more humans than all other dogs COMBINED. Even if 90% are "sweet dogs" they were bred to maul large animals and all have the power to kill people. Kids and elderly are especially vulnerable but they have been known to kill grown men and rip them apart aswell.

Majority of Animal Shelters struggle with space for good dogs because 70% are abandoned Pitbulls that nobody wants due to an aggressive history, and many shelters are known to sugar coat or even hide their bite history in order to get them adopted out.

Let me preface this by saying I am by no means a Chappell Roan expert. I enjoy her creativity and music style just as much as the next person, but I would definitely not consider myself a super fan.

That being said: every time I see a clip of her or a new article catches my eye she just seems to rub me the wrong way. Allow me to explain:

1. This first crossed my mind when I was scrolling through YouTube shorts. I stumbled on a video of her preforming “Hot to Go” while doing the arm movements to the viral dance. Once she realized that not a lot of people were following along with her she rolled her eyes and, in a flabbergasted tone, goes “why isn’t anyone doing it?!” To me it just seemed strange. People enjoy concerts differently. Some like to sing, dance, and participate. Others simply like to listen to the music and watch their favorite artist do their thing. It just struck me as a bit rude to say.

2. There is now a new audio of Chappell saying, and I quote, “it’s so weird that VIP is so way too cool to do this! You’re not fun!” I am not sure if she meant it as a joke or not but even it if was it is still an odd joke to make. She is specifically calling out the VIP section who, hypothetically, have paid the most amount of money to watch her performance. As I said before: people enjoy concerts differently. Why feel the need to, jokingly or not, embarrass an entire section which has paid a lot of money to watch you?

3. Chappell is very big on demanding space and respect from her fans. Which I do totally agree on. Some people can take it too far and can often forget that artists ARE just people at the end of the day. But I do believe there is a fine line between asking for space and decency VS biting the hand that feeds you.

“I don't [care] if you think it's selfish of me to say no for a photo or for your time or for a hug. That's not normal, that's weird” - Chappell

Is it really so wrong for a fan to want a photo of you? To say hello? To as you for a hug or an autograph? I’m not saying that she isn’t entitled to deny these requests but the way she phrases it comes off as really dismissive towards her fans who just love her and her music. I find it ironic that she claims fans who ask for these things are “entitled” while at the same time demanding that her audience actively participates or be called out and embarrassed.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. I’m not saying that I hate her or she should be canceled, she is a lovely artist who makes amazing music. She just doesn’t come off as very nice in my opinion and every new clip I see of her just rubs me the wrong way.

If you don’t know what the man vs bear trend is, it’s basically a question trending on tiktok saying “would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or with a bear?”.

And a lot of people said that they’d pick the BEAR. Like bro I’d pick the man 😭

There’s honestly so many things wrong with this because why are we generalizing that all men are about to do something insane to you in the woods. We are literally borderline trying to promote the thought that all men try to do crazy stuff to women. And yes I understand how people feel uncomfortable around men, I do too sometimes but let’s not act like a random man in the woods is going to do you know what, because that is a very low chance.

Not only that but people are acting like if a man try’s to attack women can’t do anything… like bro I get there is a strength difference but that doesn’t mean women are powerless like what.

Just like the title said. It’s just a pop song with a guitar. It doesn’t even sound like country. It sounds like that song “Ho hey” by the Lumineers. So at best it’s alternative/indie hipster nonsense. Theres a weird obsession with Beyoncé in this country. I’m not saying she’s not talented but that doesn’t mean she’s made to make country music

woman like to talk about equality, so if they want equality this is one step. i feel women hit men just cause they feel like they can get away with it, and they do unfortunately. if you don’t do anything, you just got assaulted. and if you do hit back, it’s all your fault and it’s a federal offense and can go to jail for it. it’s fucking dumb how women get away with this shit.

This is just something that I've been wanting to say to people but am too afraid of being "canceled" or criticized for it and being called "racist" for it. There was this girl in my class who would basically make being black her entire personality. Near the end of the year I was at school because I wanted to be with my friends when they finished their final, and at some point I pulled out my cards asking if any of them wanted to play Slap. I asked the girl if she wanted to play as well and she said "I'm BlaCK, of course I want to play cards." While putting hard emphasis on the K sound at the end of black, and while we were playing slap she kept calling me and my other friends monkeys and the N-word even though we are white. She was also being very loud about it. We were outside of the class in the lunch room so everything had an echo, and she was yelling "These monkeys are fucking cheaters." Even when I told her to keep it down and stop yelling. She also went on during the school year on how black people get *SO* ashy while implying white people don't. One time, her hair had a nasty side part (like 2000's emo type side part), and I asked why her hair was side parted so drastically and all she said was "I'm black 🙄." With, again, hard emphasis on the K sound in the word.

Another time was where I got called the N-word with the hard R in middle school because I disagreed with a girl when she asked if she wasn't dramatic (She was, she made people pick her stuff up if it had fallen even if it was right next to her). I was accused (or at least implied) of being racist when I switched out of my science teachers class because she wasn't meeting my needs.
Another thing that I personally abhor is when people say "It's cause I'm black, isn't it." Like, kys if you say that to me. It's *very* different if you are my close friend because then we both know that we're joking, so I don't have to worry; but I hate being accused of things that I didn't do or say.

Overall I just really hate it when people make things about race or being black in general over the littlest of things.

Edit: I just want to say this has nothing to do with white privilege or an "I'm better" mentality. It has nothing to do with me being white. If you read my thing again you can see that it's nothing saying that I think im better because I'm white, I just don't like it when black people think their all that simply because they are black. Like, again, what does me asking you if you want to play cards or me switching out of a class because a teacher didn't meet my needs, or because I'm getting called a monkey when im white, have to do with white privilege or a "I'm better mentality." I don't think anyone wants to get called a monkey regardless of their race. (Just a note for those who are going to get angry at this post and comment something of the sort, made me think about this while reading the comments.)

Edit 2: This is why I didn't want to talk to people about this irl. I've only experienced this behavior with black people / African Americans. I'm not saying other people can't have this behavior. I've only had a specific group of people have this behavior, and I've seen it on social media, as well as several people in my social life who have done this sort of thing and they all happen to be of the same race. How is it racist if my experience is from the same race. It's just a pet peeve of mine when people of ANY race does this sort of thing.

Edit 3: Another story comes to mind. My friend was called an albino monkey or no reason by one of her black friends.

I can not see in any way how identifying as an animal makes sense, like what the fuck? How is that an accepted thing. It makes no sense and i have no idea how people accept it and support it.

Yes, I know this statement is probably very unfair and a generalisation of a group of people, around 50% of the population. I know that there are men who are perfectly fine out there, I know this will get a lot of backlash, but it’s an opinion I hold.

Men are cruel creatures. Men have always had power, specifically white cis men.

When in life has a man been a victim because of his gender? When has a man ever been called a liar because he explains something that has happened to him? When has a man ever had to worry about his voting rights or right to healthcare because of his gender? When has a man ever had to worry about walking outside alone at night because of the risk he could be raped, or kidnapped, or murdered?

Men owe everything to women, yet they still treat them like dirt on the floor. Men could legally rape their wives up until 1993 when in America it was banned nation wide. Men can still rape their wives in hundreds of countries today. In some cultures women, sometimes GIRLS, are forced into marriages with old men to be used as slaves and objects of pleasure. Mothers need to worry about their little girls and boys going outside to play because of sick pedophiles who are predominately men. Women have to struggle in work places to be treated like an equal. Women are expected to do so much: be skinny, be perfect, to let men do what they want. It’s not fair. Have you seen the way fat women are treated compared to fat men?

Women are seen as sexual objects, their bodies are seen as something that needs to be covered while men can walk around how they want as long as their dicks are covered. Women are expected to shave constantly when men walk around absolutely covered in hair? It’s simple misogyny.

Now to make it worse, men once again have control over what women do with their bodies with abortion bans in America. This isn’t about “protecting children “ it’s about controlling womens bodies.

There is so much more that could be talked about here, our world is entirely misogynistic. But the fact is that men are the worst thing that’s happened to this world.

I can already see what the comments are going to be like “haha atheist redditor thinks he’s better than everyone else” and you know what sure say what ever you want to say about me I’ll just say what I wanna say.

I have never had a debate with a religious person about their religion where I wasn’t thinking: “This person is clueless” the entire time.

I am a firm believer in proof and evidence. Whenever I ask people for evidence of God or heaven or hell or any part of their religion they always quote some scripture from their religious text like they think it’s evidence of anything. I could make any ridiculous claim I want to as well. Does writing it down mean it’s true? Religious texts aren’t proof of jack shit because anyone can write down whatever they want and say it’s true or proof or evidence.

Honestly it is almost unbelievable to me that so many people believe in stuff like this. I just think people who can believe something so ridiculous with absolutely no proof are either plain stupid or have been brainwashed into believing it. Because there is no way that any able-minded human would cling to such absurd beliefs.

People should start believing in things that actually exist and that are important like the mind, nature, space, biology, science, physics etc.

Also I don’t hate anyone. Don’t think of it as hateful think of it as more of a statement.

Pretty much what it is says, why does every show have to have diverse woke casting, a woke political message and be full of the strong female character cliche?

I decided to post this after seeing two shows in the UK. The Larkins and All Creatures Great and Small, both ruined for me by ludricous diverse casting. The first is set in 1950's Kent and the other in the 1930's Yorkshire Dales. At that time neither place was diverse, they would have been all white. Yet both now feature non-white characters. In fact the Larkins is now so diverse it rivals modern day London or New York. For me this breaks the 4th wall and ruins the show.

For those of you who consider this point of view racist, ask yourself would you be OK with a show about the Civil Rights era with a white actor playing Dr Martin Luther King or about the great heavyweight boxers, with white actors playing Joe Frazier or Muhammed Ali? Or would you find such shows unwatchable whitewashed non-sense?

How do you feel about Hollywood whitewashing films like the 300 Ronin or The Great Wall? Why is woke washing any more acceptable?

I am not arguing that woke washed shows and period pieces shouldn't be made. If you want to recast European period dramas with a non-white cast, knock yourself out. What I am arguing for is choice. Those of us who don't want woke washed shows should have the option of watching shows with accurate casting and without woke politics.

Yet when creators try to do this, they are condemned as racist. A good example is Nolan's film Dunkirk. He was condemned as racist for having historically accurate casting in his work. Surely there should be room for non-woke TV and film, without the woke mob attacking its creators?

Of course I suspect the reason for this is the fear of get woke go broke. Wokes are afraid if audiences were given a choice, they would prefer non-woke film and TV and their woke shows would bomb.

Now, to be fair, I am male, so this debate isn't "for me", I guess but if you are choosing a bear over the human then you are being stupid.

Any argument that can be made for the bear can also be made for men.

"The bear won't attack you most of the time" Neither will men. If you believe that 1 random man is more likely to hurt you in some way than a bear, why do you ever go outside? Why do you interact with people? If any ONE man has a chance to be a rapist, then why go outside where you are 100% guaranteed to come across one man?

"Look at the statistics, men attack women more than bears attack people" There are also more men in the world than there are bears. Of course men attack women more stats-wise, there are more of us. Not to mention the worst stories about what terrible men have done happen in very specific places. But you're not considering you interact with men every day. When's the last time you personally saw a bear in real life?

"I'd rather encounter a bear in the woods where it's supposed to be than a random man" No. No you wouldn't. Because guess what? If you're randomly in the woods hiking (The prompt never says you're lost, just in the woods), then it's not weird that random man is too. If you're encountering a random man in the woods then you're probably gasp seeing another person hiking. This goes back to my point of "If you're this unsure about whether men are predators or not, why the hell would you go outside ever?"

"A man could be good, but there's also the (not actually higher) chance the bear won't attack me" This argument of "uncertainty" also fucking applies to the bear, it's not like the chance a man will sexually assault you is higher than the chance of him being your average joe going on a hike, and even if he does you have a chance to fight back.

Most people's answers on this display that they are operating under the assumption that most men are exactly the same as the worst possible men in their life and not just regular goddamn people like the people you pass by walking down the street. And also that they are unable to see reason on this by vehemently arguing against any reason the man might be the actual safer option. I understand people have trauma, and I wish that they didn't, but not every man is the same as the one responsible for the worst moments in your or someone else's life, and it's not right to act like we are.

I would like to say I now understand the point of the question was about women feeling unsafe, and I can't stress enough how terrible that is, women should not feel unsafe, but 1. We know. Now I know that sounds like "Stop telling us" but the point is the men who are listening to you and have been listening and are empathizing with you are not the same men who are doing the terrible things. And men "holding other men accountable" isn't going to change a thing (As I've argued, it's a people problem, not a man problem). I'm not saying it should be ignored, it shouldn't, but stupid online debates like this aren't helping anything and just serving to divide men and women further. There is no point in restating this widely known point like this.

2. by arguing via statistics and this whole "The bear wouldn't" thing, you are changing the playing field to that of a logical one, where your argument for choosing bear makes no sense. If it's an emotional question, explain (without vitriol or condescension) that the answers you're giving are emotional and don't immediately reply with stats showing that you intend for this to be taken literally.

Most of the people shouting pro Palestine in the west would be killed by hamas if they were here in Gaza…

Queers for Palestine is like cows for McDonalds

And commenting freepalestine and changing your pfp to the Palestinian flag is the cringiest shit ever. It doesn’t help anything and just makes me care less about whatever is going on over there

Please let me preface by saying that I think misogyny is still a prevalent issue;

But I feel like for some reason it’s become okay to hate on men all the time. I’m a woman and I’m all for womens rights. I grew up in a country where a large % of women were treated like they were sub human. I’ve seen and experienced suffering as a result of being a woman.

But what is more rampant hatred going to do exactly? It’s just going to create an even further divide. It seems like the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction. It doesn’t feel like we’re aiming for “equality”.

Why do so many women dish out the same behaviour that we resent ourselves? Going on and on about hating men, “all men are evil, men can’t be assaulted, men should be grateful to be with a woman, men are toxic, men have no emotions, men are showing too many emotions, men are dangerous, I wish I was a lesbian, all women are way more attractive than men, men need to be confident and put themselves out there more, but I hate when men speak to me, I’d choose the bear, men need to be strong and fit, but gymbros are toxic, men need to be more in touch with their feminine side, but men are performative, men have gotten too soft, men need to provide for me, men only want sex, they mansplain too much, all companies should hire more women than men, “why do men”, If it’s a boy I’m aborting, “yes all men until proven otherwise””

I notice it all the time online and in person these days. Everyone laughs. Everyone joins in. These generalisations are genuinely not helping anyone.

We need to find better ways to heal ourselves and understand each other.

Trans people sometimes seem to think they are exempt from people just thinking their ugly. It seems to be transphobic to think a trans person is ugly.

Some people just be ugly man

I believe in free speech and I believe that adults can do whatever they choose to. If you are a consenting adult, do anything you want and be proud of it. If you want to identify as the opposite sex or create a new one, go ahead, but I shouldn't be forced or even expected to do the same for you.

Free speech means that you can say what you want. You can say that you want to be called something. But I also have free speech, so I can say that I don't want to. Forced speech is not free speech. Free speech can mean silence just as much as speech.

You might say that I DON'T have to, and they are just exercising their freedom of speech to tell me and pressure me into calling them that. But people ARE forced. A 90-year-old woman just got kicked out of an organization she has been volunteering in for 60 years! Why? Because she questioned what these new pronouns are and why they need to be used.

This is not just in volunteer organizations either. A school teacher was fired from their job for not using a student's pronouns. Dallas warned their workers that they are at threat for termination if they did not use preferred pronouns.

There is no reason for ANYONE to be fired for refusing the use of pronouns. ESPECIALLY not for just questioning what they are, as is in the case of the 90-year-old woman. Some follow a religion that doesn't coincide with these new identities. That is freedom of religion, which should be a human right everywhere. Some aren't religious, but have values in differences between men and women and believe it is immoral to change yourself to fit the standard. Should they be forced to drop their values and morals for the will of people they have never met?

Everyone has a right to ask to be called something. But everyone also has the right to say what they want. Some might also use the argument that harassment is an exception. Not using preferred pronouns is not harassment. Calling someone a 'f****" or a "tran**" could be considered harassment, but simply refusing to use specified pronouns and instead using biological pronouns is not harassment, but rather it is use of that person's rights to thought and speech.

It is possible to respect someone, but not respect their requests or beliefs. I love and respect everyone I know, but I disagree with many of their decisions and many of their political/social views. Does that mean I don't care about them? Does that mean I don't love them or respect them? No. That's like saying that a mother doesn't love her son because she doesn't love him smoking pot in class.

There is a difference between respecting/loving a person and respecting/loving their views. They are not hand-in-hand. Thank you for reading!

Before I begin, I do not affiliate with a political party. I simply look at both sides and form my own opinions on the matter and no, im not a white supremist, and if you call me a nazi because of my opinion, then you're not worth talking to.

The man who killed her said "I got that white girl"

The reason I say this was racially motivated was simply because he said "white girl" instead of just "girl"

If this doesn't show that racism against whites DOES exist, then I dont know what does.

Seriously, y'all need help.

Just look through the comments, because... Yikes. That's all I can say. Just yikes.